Growing up in Soviet Russia was terrible, but the Soviets never killed any of my family members. Hitler did. For me, there is no question who was the greater evil. That said, I am grateful for the US' efforts for freedom and democracy throughout the world, and am happy I got out when I did.
I guess the guy who punched you in the nose is more odious to you personally, than the guy who didn't. But rest assured the second one was quite busy with others. Communism, thy name is purges.
That will come as a relief to the hundreds of thousands Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians that were sent by cattle cars to the Gulags (slave camps) in Siberia to perish under subhuman conditions.
Poppa Joe Stalin was kind to your family, for whatever reason; not so to hundreds of thousands others and for that, they have earned the right to hate the Russians (Communists)!!!